Keir Graff: Hello, my name is Keir Graff. As you can hear, my first name rhymes with ear, and as you can see, it is one of the many confounding exceptions to the rule I before E except after C. My parents wanted an unusual name for me, and first encountered the name Keir when they saw actor Keir Dullea play David in the film David and Lisa. When I was a teenager, I had the exact same role in a play at my high school. It must have been destiny.